Americaamprsquos fascination with Alaska began at the turn of the last century when Jack London and John Muir captivated readers with their fiction and nonfiction storiesampmdashand continues today with such popular books as Into the Wild and the explosion of Alaska reality TV shows. In such a giant and forbidding place people lose their way. They hurt themselves. Their equipment fails. They clash with wildlife. And in Alaska one stroke of bad luckampmdashone small mistakeampmdashcan mean catastrophe. This book recounts twenty true misadventures all but one told from the survivoramprsquos point of view. Its chapters describe getting lost in the wilderness bear attacks deadstick landings snowmobile mishaps overturned canoes and even escape from a steaming volcano. Told as cautionary tales these chapters are not only a nailbiting good read on their own but an illustration of the many perils of living working and recreating in the Last Frontier.